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Sydney Northern Beaches Woodturners Inc.Newsletter February 2013
New meeting location now in the club auditorium
Meg Webster demonstrating at the Bunnings Christmas party
Vol. 7 No. 1 February 2013 President: Jack Butler Vice President: Vic Harvey Secretary: Paul Cosgrave Treasurer: Rupert Linn Editors: Graham Truelove
and Lloyd Ross email: [email protected] Correspondence: Attn: Paul Cosgrave 139 Prince Alfred Parade Newport NSW 2106 Workshop: Narrabeen RSL Club Nareen Pde Nth Narrabeen NSW 2101 Meetings: Tuesday & Friday 9:00am-12:00pm Saturday 9am – 3:00 pm Monthly: 3rd Sunday of each month 9:00am-2:30pm Web: https://sites.google.com/site/woodturner60/
Contents:
This Months Headlines Dig-In Club Members Forum Meeting Reports Show & Tell Demonstration Up coming events
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Do you have any questions, answers, tips, tricks, bright ideas, anything to do with turning, the club, or just want to have a good old fashioned whinge…this forum is for YOU! All submissions remain anonymous. email: The Editor About-Turn Newsletter [email protected] Always write the name [if known] on a piece of wood with a marking pen etc., and the date when you add that piece of wood to your collection. If it is a dark wood, stick some masking tape to it and write on that. This will help you remember as time goes by as your stock of wood increases.
To reduce subsequent wood movement on finish turned boxes, rough turn the top and bottom sections and let them rest for two days before you do the final turning and fitting of the lid. From Aaron Ehrlich
Wood Turning Blanks Trend Timbers Woodturning Tools Timber Slabs 15 Railway Road North Pyrography Jet Tools Mulgrave, NSW 2756 Sharpening Tools Couger Phone: (02) 4577-5277 Fax: (02) 4577 6846 U-Beaut Chucks/Jaws Email: [email protected] Rustins Accessories Organ Oil
This being the first newsletter for the year we wish you all a woodfilled and happy new year. Prior to Christmas we had a couple of good events at Bunnings Belrose, a BBQ and a demonstration at the Bunnings Christmas party.
We were also invited and paid to demonstrate at the St. Ives Village Christmas Fair
Sunday Meeting February 17th With the advent of Sunday ‘barefoot bowls’ at Narrabeen RSL we have been relegated toour monthly meetings. Please note the new location. Our meeting opened at 9:40 with a welcome to several potential new members and somour meeting through articles appearing in the Manly Daily. Peter Clouston, our publicity abeen active in pursuing MD to have information about the club and its activities publishedAn article appearing in the MD P7,on Sat 16th Feb re Brookvale show has some promis Some points of interest from the meeting were:- The club Workshop Safety Manual is now available for all members – see Rupert for a copy. Membership cards are available from Rupert several members have not picked theirs up.
Bank account is in good shape with January profit being $804.55 half of which was from Bunnings BBQ. Charity donations for the year of $3000.00 distributed to:- Manly Warringah Resource Centre, Caddy Transport, Cardiac Unit Manly, Mona Vale hospital Auxiliary, and the Motor Neurone Foundation Alex reported that the Guild still needs more demonstrators for the Easter Show. A new banner has been made up with information about our club to be used at public events.
the auditorium in the club for
e interested people drawn to nd marketing officer, has and it seems to be working.
e for the future.
Show & Tell conducted by Aaron There was a good range of turnings for S & T this month and combined with the items in our show cabinet in the RSL club our visitors and new members were able to gain an idea of what we are about. First up was Vic Harvey with two platters each from a different type of burl. One from a ‘normal’ Redgum burl and one from a burl created with the combination of many branches, they were quite different from each other. Paul Cosgrave was next with another of his thoughts on abstract form and design (or, I don’t know what i’m doing but it looks nice). He called it ‘Moon Flower’ a nice combination of timbers pattern and finish.
Mr Bamboo – Rob Morton showed his family of rabbits – they seem to be increasing in number. The larger one was a money box. Tim McGreggor exhibited his first cheese knife with a handle of Cedar and finished with
food safe oil. A knife is no good by its self so he made the companion cheese board from Tas Oak and Pine together with a mouse to guard the cheese - made of course from ‘mouse wood’. Tim also showed a potpourri bowl from Jacaranda – his first end grain turning and he discovered that not all the pewter inserts are round.
Barry Child brought a very nice segmented vase he had made and described how he made it. Very nicely done.
Meg Webster in her search for things that will sell at the markets came up with Pin Cushions and has had some success. Nicely turned and decorated bases.
Paul Vincent, another of our newer members brought along a ring stand that was a work in progress. Will be nice to see the finished article Paul.
Jack Butler showed a number of his turnings. A large potpourri bowl in Jacaranda with a laser cut MDF ring insert and finished in Rustins Plastic Coat. A smaller potpourri bowl in Jacaranda, A lidded box in jacaranda with Paua shell insert, two matching lampstands from carefully arranged laminations and finished with satin Estapol – a very nice effect and two mouse fridge magnets. As usual a very nice presentation.
Paul Johnson-Walker showed a bowl made from part of a tree that was cutdown near our workshop, he described how he turned it using a tool he had bought from Bruce Leadbeater that had several faces on the one tip. Paul also showed a small bowl made from four quadrants of Radiata Pine which he had glued together with the grain at right angles to each adjoining piece – not a easy task to get a smooth finish. His last piece was a four legged bowl.
David Thom brought along a well made bangle laminated from Alpine Ash and Merbau and finished with polyurethane laquer. Ken Cooper showed a first and a last. The first being one of the first things he turned – a small lidded box and the last was one of his more recent turnings an unusual lidded box on four turned legs. He has certainly progressed over the years.
Lloyd Ross showed an end grain turned vase from jacaranda with a plastic insert to hold water, he said he had a bit of trouble trying to get a smooth finish on the end grain.
Jenny Horne showed her first bud vase nicely turned from sassafras, keep up the good work.
Demonstration :- The demonstrator for the day was Aaron Ehrlich . Three Subjects - Turning bone, Split turning and Egg shapes. You never know what you will get from Aaron but its always interesting. Turning Bone. Bone is an interesting medium to work with but obtaining straight pieces long enough to work with is difficult. Just obtaining some and the subsequent cleaning of it takes time, shin bone from a cow is best. The bone needs to be cleaned, a smelly, messy job and the inside needs to be cleaned of matter. Aaron boils in detergent and bleach to clean and whiten the bone before cutting into pieces for turning.
When turning a respirator mask should be worn as the dust is very fine and easily enters the lungs. Bone finishes nicely but tools will need frequent sharpening, initially turn at slow/medium speed, its noisy cutting and the bone is quite hard, can speed up for finishing. Because the pieces being turned are usually small, small tools need to be used and can be bought in sets from McJing or be self made.
As an example, Aaron turned a finial for a box lid that he had premade.
Split Turning. To illustrate what split turning is about Aaron passed around some samples of turnings he had done – a phantom vase, a wall plaque and book ends together with photos of traditional split turnings used to decorate furniture. He also spoke about inside / outside split turning with an example of a pair of earings. His demonstration was of a phantom vase. Points to note are:- Use paper to separate the pieces, computer or printer paper will do. When making up your blank put the glue (normal woodworking glue) on the timber pieces then sandwich the paper between them, don’t apply glue to the paper first. Clamp till dry. When preparing for turning you can use masking tape around the ends if worried about splitting. Drill a 2mm hole in the centre of each end so that the points of the drive centre and spur don’t split the blank. Turn spigot to suit your chuck, mount and turn to round using slow speed. Aaron used a wide parting tool to create the divisions along the blank and then a narrow parting tool to create the internal detail, remembering to drop the tool rest height as the internal diameter becomes smaller. When the turning was finished, tension was reduced on the tailstock to ease tension and prevent a jamb as it was parted off. The piece was removed from the lathe and using knife blades tapped with a small hammer the two pieces were separated and the paper residue sanded off.
Egg Shapes. This one was an information session like show and tell. Aaron expounded on all things to do with egg shapes. Some of the points were:- All eggs are a similar shape, there are laws for drawing egg shapes, there was a graph of ratio of height to width for drawing egg shapes, early man used egg shaped rocks to hollow out dishes etc, ocarinas were egg shaped musical instruments. Aaron produced an ancient Chinese Tangram - a jig saw puzzle based on an egg shape and several members had trouble putting it together until they found that one piece was missing. We were then introduced to an egg pricker, egg on a string game, eggs spinning in a bowl then turned out onto a surface to spin, egg people and a chuck for making egg spoons. Another chuck for making offset turned egg cups and sample cups, twin egg cups and a double ended egg cup were followed up with magic eggs and a simulator to light up a lamp held in mouth, a lie detector and a sexometer. Where Aaron gets his ideas from we don’t know but he certainly makes things interesting. Thanks Aaron for a very entertaining demonstration.
The demonstrator for our next meeting will be Rupert Linn.
Events Diary. Bunnings BBQ for 2013
Here is the list of the upcoming Bunnings BBQ dates for 2013. Fri 22nd February Fri 5th April Fri 8th March Fri 24th May Sat 16th March Fri 14th June Please advise Gary Cox of your participation and if you would prefer morning or afternoon shift.
St Ives Markets Sunday markets – 3rd March, 7th April, 5th May, 2nd June
Sunday Meetings 17th March, 21 April, 19th May, 16th June
General
Paddy deKlerk still has a set of cole jaws to suit a Teknatool chuck. For
Leadbeater Lathe - swivel head, speed control, chuck plus assorted tools from Tom Flannagan. See Jack Butler for details and pricing. Brian Porter from Frenchs Forest PH. 94525365 has a Treadle Lathe available if any one is interested in doing a restoration.(it also has a jig saw). Jack Butler has a 10in Jointer / Thickneser free to a good home. Contact Jack
further enquiries contact Paddy on mob: 0411 706 259
Ted Goodman wants wooden handled carpenters chisels. Made by Berg Sweden and stamped with a shark. If you have any then phone Ted on 9982-2259 and put the bite on him.
Raffle Winners
Best Wishes Birthdays
New Members
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In Sympathy month and to June McKpassed away recently.
..Winners this month were Aaron Ehrlich with a Bunnings gift card and Jenny Horne who won a diamond hone and sharpeningset.
Norm McArthur is still in hospital, and Gary Cox is recovering at home. We all hope you have a quick recovery.
For January and February:- Jack Butler, Robert Condon, Malcolm Fogg, Lionel Hirning, June McKimmie, Graham Truelove, Paul Vincent and Meg Webster. Happy Birthday to you all.
elcome Tim Bakker, Ted Williams, and Peter Wicking
e hope you enjoy your time with us
Our sympathy goes to the family of Bill Donaldson who ‘passed immie who’s husband Mike
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away suddenly early this